Guitar heroes

Forget your collection of vintage vinyl. Get in on the six-string boom.

Business2.0 Magazine reports that prices for classic guitars are headed into the rarified stratosphere previously only reached by Google and Berkshire Hathaway shares.

One guy the magazine interviewed owns a 1968 Gibson Les Paul Custom that’s appreciated 750 percent to $8,500 in the five years he’s owned it. One day, he hopes to send his kid to college on the proceeds.

Sound far-fetched? Not really. A 1960 Gibson Les Paul, the same model played by Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page, sold for $192,000 in May at a Christie’s auction in New York. Had it been a year older, it could have netted $250,000, Business2.0 reports.

Six-string boom fueled by baby boomers who want to play the guitar of their heroes like Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin